U+1F82 "ᾂ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni Unicode Character

U+1F82 "ᾂ" Greek Small Letter Alpha with Psili and Varia and Ypogegrammeni is a composite glyph used in the polytonic orthography of Ancient Greek, representing the vowel alpha combined with a smooth breathing mark (psili), a grave accent (varia), and an iota subscript (ypogegrammeni) that indicates a long diphthong where the iota is not pronounced but written beneath. This character appears in texts that require precise diacritical notation, such as classical editions or liturgical works, and it serves to denote grammatical inflection or poetic meter by specifying the vowel's tone, breath, and historical length. Its encoding in Unicode as a single precomposed form ensures compatibility with legacy systems and simplifies rendering for scholarly publications, despite modern Greek typically discarding these diacritics.